Narwhal tusks were once a highly sought-after commodity ... Many adult males wear duelling scars from these encounters and some animals have been found with tusk tips lodged in their skull. Recent ...

They cast nets a couple hundred feet from shore, haul the animals into study and release them within 30 minutes. “It’s very difficult working on a 1,500- to 1,700-pound marine mammal in the middle of ...

A narwhal tusk that is nearly seven feet long is extremely rare. Here's where you can see it in Massachusetts.

Worcester science museum EcoTarium has enhanced its collection of mammal artifacts and sculptures, along with an unspecified monetary donation, from benefactors Peter and Joan Dirlam of Southbridge.

The term “narwhal” is Scandinavian and means “corpse whale”, which refers to the creature’s mottle grey-black skin colour – the colour of a corpse. In fact when they are born ...

Nevertheless, he wondered whether the therapeutic properties of the tusk were real and experimented with poisoning animals ...